Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

scaling the side walls of scarcity



scaling the walls of scarcity

technology is heralded as the victors against scarcity
in the western world
fired with privilege
with such advancements
and a multicultural society
with religious freedom
one might think
that morality and scarcity
are unlit fossilized ashes
and that is a matter for far away shores
but scarcity is not joined at the hip with natural resources
but with anything
of a finite nature
created or otherwise
such as time
the beginning of a work day is an arrangement aloof
in the arbitrary
from the consequences to the lack of adherence
then the point of technology alleviating or alienating
scarcity
it is possible but is it probable is the question
as with tube space allocation and the number of carriages
that descend those of proposed morality on the opposing sides
of fairness and equality
huddling help and turning the other cheek out of mind
as morality now is a liability
a luxury not afforded
where one pokes under the proposed
canopy of civility
where civilians rather
risk carriage collisions
inner cranium contusions
than forgo their afforded privileges
or to slip in front of another deviously
yet huff and puff when someone reciprocates
their deed
do unto others as you have them do unto you
the same preachers of collectivism
wearing emblems of national flags upon clothing
ironically endorsing and promoting a structure
then clamber over with ease over one of its inhabitants
to further individualistic gains
for this space
a space compact
in between a multitude
you hustle and bustled with
or passed
to the point of not letting passengers off the train
of such a regular occurrence
tfl actually have employees to advise travelers to let others
disembark from the carriage
before any attempt to embark
creating this perpetuated karma
uninhibited by audible advice
the sword of scarcity cutting off the ties to morality
ushering its subjects to the callous
but as i find myself being ushered closer and closer
to the yellow safety line
become territorial for my spot
and angling my body
i remark at how scarcity has no power
and it is our weakness that fuels it
it is not a tower
some impregnable fortress of infallible fortitude
but a ditch of our own digging devices
and i begin to see others greedily pass me to be pressed up
against the glass

for the next carriage to have more than enough room
and that scarcity has the power we give it
for time is our construction not our task master
and that we should be the change we want to see

so thanks again for reading i have been very active so the post have been thick and fast
so keep your eye for the next one within the next


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four days

Saturday, 8 December 2012

Tfl Smelly foods ad sinister or savoury

I noticed this poster on the under ground saying please don't eat smelly food and this got me thinking
what foods don't smell
the smell of food is part of the process of tasting
From fresh baked cookies to cod and chips
also that there is no reason given why they don't want people to eat smelly food on the tube
Also their is nothing saying not to bring smelly food upon the tube and wouldn't that just defeat the object of the poster and its plea
And wouldn't eating the smelly food reduce the mass of smelly food and you get left with the less area based aroma
But the more analytic side of me finds that this is a polite way of being rude for the smelly food seems not to mean one of an english variety but of an other sort
Also the absence of reasoning behind it is also suspect if it were because other people may be hungry it would go against the capitalist nature of the underground which whores its walls and even its carriages with adverts advertising all manner of things and the fact exiting certain tube station one is sometimes made aware of the nearest "restaurant" usually being MacDonald's

If it is distress it kinds of questions the morality of the people who are being distressed for is it over sensitiveness is it because the smell is putrid and if so i don't think anyone will be eat food as such like a raw fish straight from the market and since london is such a multicultural place any food brought upon its tube and train service will have a shop of origin it can be purchased at even if the food is homemade
so what is the main difference between whiffing it on the street to that of the train
the answer people would say is duration
but the tube is a beehive of interconnection how long could one be on a tube line with someone with "odourous food" maximum an hour and even if they weren't eating it what could they do about the smells on their person

food is made for consumption so foul smelling foods will in general be avoided except for the durian which is not epidemically eaten in the uk undergrounds which gets you on to who complained about food on the underground and who was more worried about them eating said food than having said food unless they also worried about them having said food but knew you couldn't ban it so went pc with don't eat

Also since it is merely a suggestion a request what would stop the people eating smelly food are they going to  have smelly food enforcers patrolling the tube tram and railways and call them something pc like environment supervisors

i won't jump to say its pc racism but it indefinably something covert which fails to address any questions and adds more to the bunch

p.s. will they start recommending non smelly foods with the tube map